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Xuanhua, 
China
333,650 people lived in Xuanhua in 2025. It is the 1718th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 316th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Xuanhua governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Xuanhua grew
Where Xuanhua had 10 people in 1975, it had 13.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 310,627 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Xuanhua through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Xuanhua in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: China and its 2,082 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Shanghai). Xuanhua is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Xuanhua covered 43 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 90%, and its people have grown by 38%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Xuanhua in 2025 — about 1 in 4,167.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1714 M'banza Congo Angola334,203
- 1715 Jianyang333,938
- 1716 Neiva Colombia333,744
- 1717 Nagaon India333,706
- 1718 Xuanhua333,650
- 1719 Sikar India333,509
- 1720 Garissa Kenya333,505
- 1721 Gwagwalada Nigeria333,464
- 1722 Basel Switzerland333,021
In China, 2025
- 1702 Shouguang336,017
- 1709 Changyi335,538
- 1713 Tianmen334,299
- 1715 Jianyang333,938
- 1718 Xuanhua333,650
- 1727 Hui'an332,559
- 1732 Liaoyuan331,469
- 1738 Xuanwei330,467
- 1739 Dashiqiao330,302
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Xuanhua are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Xuanhua publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries